April 3, 2014

Come to the Cabaret: Kander and Ebb’s classic – in pictures

As Cabaret returns to Broadway, starring Michelle Williams and Alan Cumming, take a look at past productions with Liza Minnelli, Anna Maxwell Martin and Judi Dench

Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles in the 1972 film directed by Bob Fosse — Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles in the 1972 film directed by Bob Fosse. Photograph: Allstar Photograph: Allstar

Anna Maxwell Martin played Sally in a 2006 West End revival at the Lyric theatre — Anna Maxwell Martin played Sally in a 2006 West End revival at the Lyric theatre. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Wayne Sleep (Emcee) with ensemble, in Cabaret at the Birmingham Rep. — Wayne Sleep, centre, as the Emcee, in a touring version of the Lyric show. Sleep had also played the Emcee on stage 20 years earlier. Photograph: Keith Pattison Photograph: Keith Pattison/pr

Alan Cumming and Jane Horrocks in Cabaret at the Donmar Warehouse 1993 — Cumming played the Emcee in Sam Mendes's 1993 revival at the Donmar Warehouse opposite Jane Horrocks as Sally. Michael Billington wrote that Horrocks was 'spot-on': 'she renders the title number, devastatingly, not as a triumphal showbiz invocation but as a piece of Brechtian irony' Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Judi Dench as Sally Bowles in Cabaret — Judi Dench played Sally in Hal Prince's production at the Palace theatre in 1968 – the first time the musical was staged in London. Photograph: Fred Mott/Getty Images Photograph: Fred Mott/Getty Images

Will Young as the Emcee in Cabaret at the Savoy theatre — Will Young was the Emcee in a 2012 revival at the Savoy theatre. He is 'more comic than menacing' wrote Lyn Gardner – 'as if Chucky's head had been sewn on to Little Lord Fauntleroy's body' Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Alan Cumming at the 1998 Tony awards — Cumming at the 1998 Tony awards, where the cast performed Willkommen. That revival won four Tonys. Photograph: Jeff Christensen/Getty Images Photograph: Jeff Christensen/Getty Images

Michelle Williams — The current Cabaret revival, staged at Studio 54 in New York with Cumming and Michelle Williams, officially opens on 24 April 2014. Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat Photograph: f

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